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US senator Eric Schmitt rants against H-1B, ‘highly skilled legal immigration harming Americans’
« on: September 04, 2025, 09:24:37 am »
US senator Eric Schmitt rants against H-1B, ‘highly skilled legal immigration harming Americans’

Republican US Senator Eric Schmitt took a step further amid the country's renewed attacks on legal forms of immigration, especially the H-1B visa program. His National Conservatism Conference speech was rife with extremist views prompting divisive reactions.
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September 4, 2025 10:54 IST
 
Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri unloaded an extremist diatribe at the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon 2025) in Washington, DC, on Tuesday (US time), as he resorted to redefining who the United States “belongs to.” With even legal immigration now the subject of enhanced scrutiny, the US senator vehemently spoke out against America drawing in highly skilled talent for jobs to “replace American workers.”

Taking to his X profile thereafter, he shared a glimpse of his address from the conference. “The H-1B visa was sold as a way to keep America ‘competitive,'” he wrote online. “Instead, it imported millions of foreign nationals to replace America workers–and transferred entire industries into the lands of foreign lobbies.”
 
US Senator fumes about legal immigration, H-1B visa program
He further added, “‘Legal’ immigration can harm Americans too.” Additionally, in his National Conservatism Conference speech he took issue with the “old conservatism establishment” for paving the road for legal immigration.

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/h-1b-highly-skilled-legal-immigration-harming-americans-says-sen-eric-schmitt-in-extremist-speech/3966204/
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Re: US senator Eric Schmitt rants against H-1B, ‘highly skilled legal immigration harming Americans’
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2025, 10:45:09 am »
Why bother to educate and train Americans for jobs that can be filled with cheaper, imported H-1B visas?

Employers hold the visa and can use it as leverage to squeeze some extra free hours out of them.  When you're salary, every hour over 40 is free.

Plus all that knowledge gets transferred back to India and China so their tech sectors can eventually surpass America's.  But, the cheaper iPhones are sooooo worth it.  Ain't Globalism grand?

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